18 Jun
2007
18 Jun
'07
9:52 a.m.
Actually, I
see a lot more Z80-based games than 6502 or 68000. Ready
supplies and familiarity with most contemporary programmers, I would
expect.
Not that there aren't surfeits of 6502 and 68K games, of course.
The Z80 was used in Neo Geo MVS games up until a couple years ago.
It is amazing what they accomplished with that platform after the
first few years. Sega still
uses a lot of SuperH-based systems (particularly NAOMI,
basically a Dreamcast on steroids).
This is what made the Dreamcast such a great system for Arcade ports.
You basically had the port done when you released the game in the
arcade. Name any other console with that many *good* arcade ports!